PSI People
Head of the PSI groupBrendan FreyPostdoctoral fellowsYoseph BarashLeo J. Lee Graduate studentsVincent CheungClement Chung Delbert Dueck Inmar Givoni Jim Huang Eddie Ng Ofer Shai StaffWeijun Gao, programmerMargaret Hewer, administrative assistant +1 416 978 1655, margaret.hewer@utoronto.ca |
U of T AssociatesParham AarabiBen Blencowe Andrew Emili Geoff Hinton Tim Hughes Frank Kschischang Radford Neal Sam Roweis Rich Zemel AssociatesDavid HeckermanTom Huang Tommi Jaakkola Nebojsa Jojic Ralf Koetter David MacKay |
AlumniKannan AchanStark Draper Nebojsa Jojic Vladimir Jojic Anitha Kannan Peter Liu Trausti Kristjánsson Chris Pal Rómer Rosales Mark Robinson Quaid Morris |
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Head of the PSI group
Our fearless leader.
Postdoctoral fellows
I did my PhD in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo with Paul Fieguth, during which I have also worked at Microsoft Research with Li Deng and Hagai Attias. My thesis was mainly on statistical speech processing and related machine learning techniques. I am interested in computational biology, machine learning, graphical models, and statistical signal processing.
Graduate students
I completed my undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering at the University of Manitoba in 2003, where I graduated with the highest academic standing and was awarded the gold medal in engineering and the Governor General's Academic Medal. Brendan Frey invited me into his PSI research group at the University of Toronto for my graduate studies and I have been working on projects in both computer vision and molecular biology during my doctoral program.
I am currently working on my M.Sc at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Dr. Brendan Frey and Dr. Andrew Emili (CCBR). My research interests are in developing efficient machine learning algorithms and applying them to solve complex problems in molecular biology. I completed my bachelor's degree at the University of Toronto and spent over 3 years working for a consultant company (Sapient Corp.) in the United States developing IT solutions for Fortune 100 financial and telecommunication companies.
I have a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the University of Manitoba. I am now working on my Ph.D. under the supervision of Brendan Frey at the University of Toronto.
I joined Brendan Frey's PSI group at the University of Toronto in 2004. I obtained my B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering with great distinction from McGill University in the same year in the area of adaptive array signal processing. My current research interest is in probabilistic graphical models and applications to computational and functional genomics.
After receiving his B.A.Sc. (Eng Sci, UofT 1999) and M.A.Sc. (Photonics, UofT 2000), Eddie spent 5 years in the Silicon Valley North, Ottawa, (JDSU, 2000 and Tropic Networks, 2000-5) building and architecting state-of-art reconfigurable optical networks - providing the enabling technology for VOIP, Video-on-demand, and other mission critical information transport. In 2005, Eddie joined Prof. Brendan Frey's group at the University of Toronto to pursue his Ph.D. degree in the field of computational biology - the use of machine learning techniques to uncover new biology info/processes (e.g. gene/protein intereactions) in organisms.
Eddie holds 4 patents (more pending) and authorships to numerous publications in the area of optical networking. Eddie's current research is funded by the NSERC CGSD award.
I started my graduate studies with Dr. Brendan Frey at the University of Toronto in 2003. I graduated with first class standing from the University of Alberta, Computer Engineering, Co-op program that same year. My research interests include computer vision and bioinformatics. I now live in Toronto with my wife, Leslie, and my cats Cleo and Patra.